Improvement in harvesters



V G. E. CHENOWETH.

' Harvester. No. 23,077. Patented March 1, 1859.

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GEORGE E. OHENOWETH, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,077, dated March 1, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, GEORGE E. OHENOWETH, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Harvesters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a part of the frame of a harvester with my improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a separate view of the post or standard with the drivers seat attached, and Fig. 3 is similar view of the socket or step into which the lower end of the standard is received.

The same part is marked by the same letter wherever it occurs in the drawings.

My improvements relate to the construction of the rakers seat. I

My invention consists in giving to the lower end of the standard or post to which the rakers seat is to be attached a polygonal form, and receiving the end thus formed in a'step or socket of correspondingshape, so thatthe standard may occupy any one of a number of ditferent positions in the step and be firmly held in all, the object being to relieve the raker by changing his position and bringing a new set of muscles into play.

- In the drawings, A marks the frame of the machine; B, the tongue; 0, the hooked lever;

. D, the ring-bolt; E, thefulcrum of leverO; F,

the standard of rakers seat; Gr, the rakers seat H, the breast and back rest; J, the drivers seat; K, the polygonal extremity of standard F; L, the polygonal socket or step; M, fulcrum of tongue; a, plate attached to drivers and rakers seats; b, slot in standard; 0, nut.

The rakers seat G is attached to the standard F by means of the plate a, which slides on the face of F, and a screw-bolt passing through slot b in the standard, and fastened at the back by nut a. By means of the bolt and nut the height of the seat is varied at pleasure, and by removing the not the rakers seat G can be taken ofl and the drivers seat J put in its place and fastened in the same manner at the height required. This is to be done when the machine is used as a mower.

When an'obstruction is met with that requires the forward end of the platform to be raised the lever 0 must be depressed, which ing grain from the platform of a harvester, it is clear that an occasional change of position will be a great relief to the raker. In the drawings the step and standard are octagonal, which will admit of three or four changes of position without interfering with the etficient action of the raker. It is obvious, however, that a figure of a greaterorless number of sides may be employed without affecting the principle of my invention, which consists in relieving the raker by changing the angle of his seat in relation to the platform from which the grain is to be raked, in the manner described.

When the rakers seat is attached to the tandard the rest H is used as a breast-rest or the raker; but when thedrivers seat J is attached the rest H becomes a back rest for the driver, as in Fig. 2.

Having thus fullydescribed my invention, I

wish it to be understood that I do not claim.

with the interior of said step, as and for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of January, A. D. 1859. GEO. E. GHENOWETH.

"Witnesses .G. W. MARTENEL, J. M. WAMPLER. 

